Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens; Illuminated manuscripts; Initials; Catholic Church. Book of hours

19 long lines in black and red ink, ruled and bounded with pale red lines; 2- and 4-line floriated capitals in colors and burnished gold and, on outer side of page, border of blue, brown, and green leaves with red and blue flowers runs length of...

19 long lines in black ink with occasional red diacritics; gold medaillions encircled by a black line with 4 alternating red and blue dots mark verses; 2 title frames, one in red and one in black ink, appear at bottom within framed gold panel...

Biblical text in large type with Anselm of Laon's Glossa interninearis in smaller font, surrounded by 73 lines of the Glossa ordinaria, attributed to Walafrid Strabo and others, in a third font size; double column format; alternating red and blue...

40 lines in two columns, ruled; two 2-line blue capitals on red-patterned ground and one 5-line red capital on purple pattern mark chapters, with pen flourishes in red and blue extending the full length of leaf to left of three columns; red...